As many other personal finance blogs get serious about the successes and shortcomings of the year that has passed, I decided to close out 2008 on a humorous note, courtesy of The Consumerist. According to the link above, it seems like CVS has hit a new level of ridiculous for putting out seasonal merchandise early. [...]

I posted this as a comment on another blog, and then got to thinking I need to post this on my own blog. I written before about Chase banking bonuses (March 2008, November 2007, September 2007), and I have always been able to get these without issue. If you have never done these before, right [...]

I posted a few weeks ago about my dilemma on what to do with my cell phone. I have been a Sprint customer for a little over two years and I’m no longer under contract, while my wife is an AT&T customer. I discussed the idea of switching to AT&T and doing a family share [...]

Seeing as it is the day after Christmas and most of us are still in holiday mode, I just wanted to do a slightly less serious post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Yes, despite the impending collapse of our economic system, Christmas still came this year and we all have many things to be [...]

I posted last week about my horrible eBay buying experiences of late. Well, at the time I wrote that I still had one outstanding transaction to complete. The seller had told me that he was out of town at the time I bought the item, but that the items would ship at the end of [...]

Anyone who knows me knows I’ve spent a lot of time in Walgreens recently. When they pay you to take stuff, it is hard for my obsessive-compulsive self to say no. Anyway, just when you thought you couldn’t milk Walgreens for anything more, the fine folks at SlickDeals have discovered yet another way to be [...]

There are many things in this world that you should just know beforehand that they will be trouble. A trip to the DMV or returning an item to a store without a receipt would both be examples many would cite. But I have my own: buying anything off of eBay. It seems like every time [...]